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" A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. "
Essays, orations and lectures - Page 33
de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 385 pages
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but bring the past for judgment into the thousand -eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your emotion....philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has (imply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded...
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. 12. Why are people afraid of seeming inconsistent ? 13. How does E. picture the man who fears to be...
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Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for ..., Volume 1

Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 pages
...Public Meeting of the Elocution Class. THINKINGS, FROM RALPITWALDO EMERSON. CONSISTENCY. — A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers, and divines. With consistency a great soul has »imply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded...
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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great sold has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what...
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The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America, Volume 1

Fredrika Bremer - 1854 - 676 pages
...the suffrage of the world. * * * * " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, ado: ed by little statesmen, and philosophers, and divines....consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Speik out what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow...
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The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America, Volume 1

Fredrika Bremer - 1858 - 702 pages
...your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. '' A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Speak out what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow...
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The Somersetshire Dialect: Its Pronunciation. Two Papers Read Before the ...

Thomas Spencer Baynes - 1861 - 534 pages
...in the scriptures symbolized as a new birth, or as being born from above. Abel C. Thomas. A FOOLISH consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself about his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow...
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The Collected Works of ... P. ...

Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...51 — 52. Hence a man must be true to his present conviction, careless of consistency : " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With cousistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on...
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Philosophy as absolute science, founded in the universal laws of being, by E ...

Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 520 pages
...motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God in shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and ffee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers...
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Outlook and Independent, Volume 147

1927 - 594 pages
...occasions those forbidden words are the only good ones." And he added that the famous sentence ("A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines") in his essay on "Self-Reliance" "would be better written thus: Damn consistency!" Only the other day...
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